Category Archives: Art

Grohmann Museum Rooftop Garden, February

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Katherine Wikoff

If I have a small class, I’ll occasionally take my students up to the rooftop sculpture garden on a warm spring day. We carry benches from all corners to sit together for discussion. To keep track of our time, we need merely glance over … Continue reading →

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A Handy Perch

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Katherine Wikoff
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Calatrava Interior, Late Afternoon on a Sunny Day

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Early September at the Milwaukee Art Museum with the brise soleil unfurled.

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A lovely, dreary day at Milwaukee’s lakefront

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

I had lunch at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s restaurant today with a group of dear, old friends (going on 25 years!): Jo, Kathleen, and Karen. The restaurant is a well-kept secret. Well, maybe not that secret, but I’m a museum … Continue reading →

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Mark Rothko “Orange and Yellow” with Woman in Jade Green

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

While visiting the “Van Gogh to Pollock: Modern Rebels” show at the Milwaukee Art Museum several weeks ago, I was sitting on a bench about twenty feet away from this painting by Mark Rothko (“Orange and Yellow,” 1956) when a woman … Continue reading →

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Grohmann Museum in October

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Looking east on State Street in downtown Milwaukee. I love the yellow leaves of the locust trees against the red brick and green dome of the Grohmann.

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Grohmann Statue and Shadow

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

We had to go outside for a fire drill two days ago at work, and while waiting for the emergency coordinator to come and tell us it was clear to go back into the building, I looked up and noticed … Continue reading →

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Light Shadows (#2)

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Sunlight reflecting off of an office building’s pinkish windows was the source of these awesome “shadows” cast down on the street and loading docks below. One of my very first blog posts a few years ago was a similar photograph, … Continue reading →

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Road Trip: Seattle

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

I had a conference to attend in Seattle last week, and since my daughters were able to come along this time, we made a bit of a vacation out of the trip. Some pics: A view of Puget Sound from … Continue reading →

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Tree shadows growing along a wall (à la Edward Hopper)

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Somehow these slanted early-morning shadows remind me of Edward Hopper’s “Early Sunday Morning,” which you can see here in the Whitney Museum of Art collection.  That sweep of light washing swiftly down a street, stretching everything in its path into spindly … Continue reading →

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